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Michelangelo’s David and cultural heritage images. The Italian pseudo-intellectual property and the end of public domain

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The ruling of the Tribunale was as follows: “unauthorized reproduction of the image of the nation’s State-protected cultural property, in a manner distorting the cultural purpose of the same property, constitutes a civil tort that must be compensated in both pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages”. 9 of the Constitution , art.

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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

IP and Legal Filings

Publicity rights have attracted considerable recognition in the field of intellectual property rights. Merely put, it is an individual’s right to handle the commercial use of their name, image, individuality and personal brand. iv] The Copyrights Act, 1957. [v]

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

SpicyIP

Adyasha notes that while the Copyright Act deems the producer of a film as its author, that doesn’t imply that author and copyright owner would necessarily remain the same perpetually. She highlights that the Court refused to afford post mortem protection to personality rights of the actor.